BROOKLYN WEATHER: Partly sunny in the morning. CLoudy and chance of drizzles in the afternoon. More Brooklyn weather here.
CITY NEWS: The Plaza Hotel, home of the spunky Eloise, will be no more. After April 30th, construction will begin to turn the legendary hotel into condos and malls with a far smaller hotel on the West 58th Street side. Will wonders never cease.
_This just in from The New York Times: A study published in "Public Health" says suburbanites are more likely to report chronic health problems, like high blood
pressure, arthritis, headaches, migraines and breathing problems than
people who lived in the city.
_Martha Stewart left prison Friday after a five month vacation stay.
_The New York Public Library has opened a digital gallery of images.
Check it out: the NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000
images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the
collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated
manuscripts, historical maps,
vintage posters,
rare prints and
photographs,
illustrated books,
printed ephemera, and more.
BROOKLYN BEAT: Come on! State Senator Marty Golden along with some Brooklyn residents called for the removal of posters advertising Showtime’s new series, "The L Word" on city bus shelters. The ad features nine of the show’s characters in the nude. "We have community standards," says Golden. "And I don’t think they are being met."
_Forest City Ratner just cleared another major hurdle. The New York Times reports today that "the city and the state have signed an agreement with the developer W
C. Ratner to build a new home for the Nets basketball team and at least
4,500 apartments as part of a $2.5 billion project at the Atlantic
Yards in Brooklyn." See Monday below.
_Jackie Robinson, former Brooklyn Dodger second
baseman and the first black player in Major League Baseball, was given a
posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor earlier in the week. Read all about it.
_Have you been wondering what that crazy/cool looking trapezoidal
structure on top of the building right next to the Manhattan Bridge
is? Well, you ain’t the only one. Dubbed the Jetsons building, it is
the work of a 32-year-old architect named Dedy Blaustein; a
rooftop addition to the building that houses the architecture firm
Scarano and Associates. And there’s even cool LED lighting with
thousands of color combinations. It’s Brooklyn’s answer to the Empire State
Building.
TODAY: Join Council Member Letitia
James and Senator Velmanette Montgomery in response to the recent
"Memorandum of Understanding" on Atlantic Yards:
City Hall Steps, Manhattan; Today (Sunday), March 6, 2005, 2 pm
WHO: Council Member James, Senator Montgomery,
Congressman Major Owens, Council Member Charles Barron, Pratt Area
Community Council, Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, Downtown Brooklyn
Leadership Coalition, Bob Law, Darnell Canada of Rebuild, Brooklyn
Vision, Prospect Heights Action Coalition
HOW TO GET THERE: 4, 5, 6 or J, M, Z trains to
Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall; 2, 3 train to Park Place;
N, R to City Hall; A, C to Fulton. Entrances are on Broadway at Warren,
and at Center Street & Brooklyn Bridge. You will need to go through
a security checkpoint.
SUNDAY: Wildman Steve Brill hosts his "Wild Food and Ecology Tour" of Prospect
Park. Meet at Grand Army Place entrance to Prospect Park. 11:45 a.m. $5
for kids under 12, $10 for adults.
"The End of the Moon." Last performance of Laurie Anderson’s one woman with violin show at BAM. 2 p.m. Information here.
_The Wooster Group at St. Ann’s Warehouse performing "House/Lights." Through April. 8 p.m.
MONDAY: Hear what the Ratner project could mean to Brooklyn in terms of
displacement of residents, impact on schools, police and fire services, and transportation issues.
Monday, March 7, 7:00 PM; P.S. 9, 80 Underhill Avenue (between St. Marks Ave. and Bergen St.); Invited officials: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; Councilmember Letitia James
WORTH TAKING A LOOK AT: The second grade art show at Starbucks. Seventh Avenue between 1st and
Garfield Place. The children’s Romare Bearden-esque cityscape collages
will be up all month.
_Check out Brooklyn Bomb Shelter, the Reader’s Digest of real Brooklyn news.
_Check out The Brooklyn Rail. for critical perpectives on arts, politics, and culture. Especially the piece by Patricial Spears Jones.
_Check out Daily Heights about life in Prospect Heights
THIS SOUNDS COOL: The Fourth Annual Planet XX: Women in Music
in honor of Women’s History month. BAMcaf